my favourite sangiovese, di Cavallo 2015, dark raspberry + soft smooth damson, 12.5%

🎨 village in valley, 1834, Rousseau

Sicilian rosato, a firm favourite, I purchase every year

Lorenzi Amarone 2015
15% satin smooth rich fruit
delicious!

appassimento with dried grapes 14.5% 🇮🇹
on with the January wines 🍷!!

selvarosso 2016 a rich italian red 15%

a Rhône rosè Costières de Nîmes, syrah & grenache 13%, raspberry and soft plum notes - a year-rounder, good as a red or white! 5*

a lady recommends me to try this Argentine rosé

green goddess at romney in Kent

https://youtu.be/QROR4LioU-8

new year concert "the bat" vienna

new years day 2022
prosperity & good news, music, wine

across old romney fields

old romney church

willow on romantic romney marsh

the red lion, snargate, very remote pub in Kent

the ferry inn, isle of oxney, very remote pub in Kent

this is my own homemade sloe gin, my first quaff this year, local marsh sloes + sugar in welsh gin
• creates a very pure liqueur for after dinner
• aids digestion
• helps me chill
• all british ingredients
• delicious indulgence!

bellum 2020 coonawarra cabernet + barossa shiraz 14.5% sets your mouth on fire! I like to choose my best 🇦🇺 wine between Christmas and new year, easy drinking but huge structure for idle contemplation

gruner veltliner, austrias great refreshing white wine, tastes rather like cider, with a bacon fat nose! excellent with mature cheeses

borough market fishmonger

Vacqueyras my favourite Rhône red

Dering Arms, exquisite Kent pub

Dering Arms Pluckley Kent

black cow, a vodka distilled from grass! 100% pure milk spirit, creamy and delicious

state of our pub trade now

lady in purple (after warhol)

😀petrified pilgrims at chilham in kent

December nightsky

the white horse pub + Chilham church in Kent

😘☺️ tonight 2 south african from the De Wet family (1697)! viognier 13.5% really lovely, exotic fruit salad - rosè 13% lysh thyme & strawberry 🍓 both would work wonders with roast chicken .. I am enjoying salmon salad